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Nov 5, 2021
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Nov 5, 2021
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Helen Rappaport
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In this international bestseller investigating the murder of the Russian Imperial Family, Helen Rappaport embarks on a quest to uncover the various plots and plans to save them, why they failed, and who was responsible. The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world, and its aftershocks still reverberate today. In Putin's autocratic Russia, the Revolution itself is considered a crime, and its anniversary was largely ignored. In stark contrast, the centenary of the massacre of...
Topics: audio, Helen Rappaport, Romanovs, The Race to Save the Romanovs, Tsar Nicholas II, Russian Empire,...
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Oct 26, 2021
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Oct 26, 2021
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Joseph T. Fuhrmann
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Legend portrays Rasputin as the 'Mad Monk' who rampaged through St. Petersburg in an alcoholic haze, making love to scores of women. A symbol of excess and religious extremism, he was believed to hold a mysterious power, emanating from his hypnotic eyes, over Tsar Nicholas II and his family. The fact that he was neither mad nor a monk has not stopped scores of writers from repeating these and other bogus claims. In Rasputin: The Untold Story , Rasputin scholar Joseph T. Fuhrmann shares the...
Topics: audio, Joseph T. Fuhrmann, Grigori Rasputin, Rasputin, Tsar Nicholas II, Romanov, House of Romanov,...
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Oct 24, 2021
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Oct 24, 2021
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Jonathan Martin
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After a disastrous war with Germany, the Bolsheviks imprisoned the Romanov family as their supporters approached. Factory worker guards were replaced by Cheka executioners, and on July 17, 1918, the family were murdered and buried in a nearby wood. For more than 70 years, their whereabouts was unknown, but new material released from Russia now conclusively reveals their fate. Related: http://archive.org/details/helen-rappaport-the-race-to-save-the-romanovs-audio
Topics: video, WW1, Tsar Nicholas II, The Assassination of Tsar Nicholas II, Romanov, Russian Empire, Yakov...
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Oct 24, 2021
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Oct 24, 2021
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Helen Rappaport
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The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg On 4 July 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely guarded house in the Russian town of Ekaterinburg. His name was Yakov Yurovsky, and his prisoners were the Imperial family: the former Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, and their children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexey. Thirteen days later, at Yurovsky's command, and on direct orders from Moscow, the family was gunned down in a blaze of bullets in a basement room. This...
Topics: audio, Helen Rappaport, Romanovs, The Last Days of the Romanovs, Yakov Yurovsky, Peter Ermakov,...
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Oct 24, 2021
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Oct 24, 2021
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Robert K. Massie
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Audio: http://archive.org/details/robert-k-massie-romanovs-the-final-chapter-audio The compelling quest to solve a great mystery of the twentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia's last tsar and his family. In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. Were these the bones of the Romanov's? If so, why were the bones of the two...
Topics: video, Robert K. Massie, Romanovs, The Final Chapter, The Romanovs, Nicholas II, Tsar Nicholas II,...
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Oct 24, 2021
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Oct 24, 2021
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Robert K. Massie
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Video: http://archive.org/details/robert-k-massie-romanovs-the-final-chapter The compelling quest to solve a great mystery of the twentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia's last tsar and his family. In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. Were these the bones of the Romanov's? If so, why were the bones of the two younger...
Topics: audio, Robert K. Massie, Romanovs, The Final Chapter, The Romanovs, Nicholas II, Tsar Nicholas II,...
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Oct 21, 2021
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Oct 21, 2021
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Paul Le Blanc
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Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy, 1917-1924 A panoramic account of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath—animated by the lives, ideas and experiences of workers, peasants, intellectuals, artists, and revolutionaries of diverse persuasions— October Song vividly narrates the triumphs of those who struggled for a new society and created a revolutionary workers state. Yet despite profoundly democratic and humanistic aspirations, the revolution is eventually defeated by violence...
Topics: audio, Paul Le Blanc, October Song, Russian Revolution, Bolshevism, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky,...
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Oct 20, 2021
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Oct 20, 2021
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Paul Le Blanc
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There are few more divisive names in history than the Soviet communist Leon Trotsky. To some, he was a betrayer, a hypocrite, and a totalitarian, and yet to many others he was a revolutionary of high esteem, who battled an outdated, oppressive dynasty and helped to usher in a new political era, and whose name became a political moniker: Trotskyist. Whether colored by disdain or admiration, one thing is certain: Trotsky was one of the most important figures of the twentieth century. Paul Le...
Topics: audio, Paul Le Blanc, Leon Trotsky, Trotsky, 1879-1940, Lev Bronstein, Aleksandra Sokolovskaya,...
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Oct 19, 2021
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Oct 19, 2021
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Faith Hillis
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Audio: http://archive.org/details/faith-hillis-utopias-discontents-audio Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s In April 1917, Lenin arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station and set foot on Russian soil for the first time in over a decade. For most of the past seventeen years, the Bolshevik leader had lived in exile, moving between Europe's many "Russian colonies"—large and politically active communities of émigrés in London, Paris, and Geneva, among other cities....
Topics: video, Faith Hillis, Utopia's Discontents, Russian Exiles, Revolutionary Russia, Russian Empire,...
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Oct 18, 2021
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Oct 18, 2021
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Faith Hillis
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Video: http://archive.org/details/faith-hillis-utopias-discontents Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s In April 1917, Lenin arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station and set foot on Russian soil for the first time in over a decade. For most of the past seventeen years, the Bolshevik leader had lived in exile, moving between Europe's many "Russian colonies"—large and politically active communities of émigrés in London, Paris, and Geneva, among other cities....
Topics: audio, Faith Hillis, Utopia's Discontents, Russian Exiles, Revolutionary Russia, Russian Empire,...
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Oct 8, 2021
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Oct 8, 2021
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Erik R. Scott
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The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire A small, non-Slavic nation located far from the Soviet capital, Georgia was more closely linked with the Ottoman and Persian empires than with Russia for most of its history. One of over one hundred officially classified Soviet nationalities, Georgians represented less than 2% of the Soviet population, yet they constituted an extraordinarily successful and powerful minority. Familiar Strangers aims to explain how Georgians gained...
Topics: audio, Erik R. Scott, Familiar Strangers, Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, Russian Empire, Diaspora,...
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Oct 6, 2021
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Oct 6, 2021
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Eric Lee
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Georgia's Forgotten Revolution, 1918-1921 For many, the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope. In the eyes of its critics, however, Soviet authoritarianism and the horrors of the gulags have led to the revolution becoming synonymous with oppression, threatening to forever taint the very idea of socialism. The experience of Georgia, which declared its independence from Russia in 1918, tells a different story. In this riveting history, Eric Lee explores the little-known saga of the...
Topics: audio, Eric Lee, The Experiment, Georgia's Forgotten Revolution, Georgian, Georgian Democratic...
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Sep 12, 2021
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Sep 12, 2021
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Ronald G. Suny
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Audio: http://archive.org/details/ronald-suny-stalin-passage-to-revolution-audio A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative years. This is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth from the provinces of tsarist Russia was transformed into a cunning and fearsome outlaw who would one day become one of the twentieth century's most ruthless dictators. In...
Topics: video, Ronald G. Suny, Stalin, Passage to Revolution, Stalin, Joseph Stalin, Lenin, Vladimir Lenin,...
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Sep 12, 2021
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Sep 12, 2021
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Ronald G. Suny
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Video: http://archive.org/details/ronald-suny-stalin-passage-to-revolution A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative years. This is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth from the provinces of tsarist Russia was transformed into a cunning and fearsome outlaw who would one day become one of the twentieth century's most ruthless dictators. In this...
Topics: audio, Ronald G. Suny, Stalin, Passage to Revolution, Stalin, Joseph Stalin, Lenin, Vladimir Lenin,...
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Sep 9, 2021
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Sep 9, 2021
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Magda Teter
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A landmark history of the antisemitic blood libel myth—how it took root in Europe, spread with the invention of the printing press, and persists today. Accusations that Jews ritually killed Christian children emerged in the mid-twelfth century, following the death of twelve-year-old William of Norwich, England, in 1144. Later, continental Europeans added a destructive twist: Jews murdered Christian children to use their blood. While charges that Jews poisoned wells and desecrated the...
Topics: audio, Magda Teter, Blood Libel, Medieval Europe, 1144, Middle Ages, William of Norwich, Thomas of...
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Sep 6, 2021
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Sep 6, 2021
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Edmund Levin
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Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel A Jewish brick factory clerk is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy for his blood to make Passover matzo—the age-old blood libel. His trial in 1913 becomes an international cause célèbre. On March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found stabbed to death in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev. Four months later, Russian police arrested Mendel Beilis, a thirty-seven-year-old father of five who...
Topics: audio, Edmund Levin, A Child of Christian Blood, 1911, Andrei Yushchinsky, Nikolai Krasovsky, Vera...
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Sep 2, 2021
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Sep 2, 2021
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Steven J. Zipperstein
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Kishinev’s 1903 pogrom was the first instance in Russian Jewish life where an event received international attention. The riot, leaving 49 dead in an obscure border town, dominated headlines in the western world for weeks. It intruded on Russian-American relations and inspired endeavors as widely contradictory as the Hagannah, the precursor to the Israeli army, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the first version of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion...
Topics: audio, Steven J. Zipperstein, Pogrom, Pavel Krushevan, Pogrom, Kishinev and the Tilt of History,...
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Sep 1, 2021
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Sep 1, 2021
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Part 3: Parts 1-3: http://archive.org/details/revolution-a-trap-for-russia-1-3 http://archive.org/details/revolution-a-trap-for-russia-2-3 http://archive.org/details/revolution-a-trap-for-russia-3-3
Topics: video, Revolution A Trap For Russia, Russian Revolution, February Revolution, Provisional...
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Aug 31, 2021
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Aug 31, 2021
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Jean-Pierre Arrignon; Valentin Katasonov; Valery Shambarov; Viktor Kozodoy;
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Part 2: Documentary on the interrevolutionary decade of 1906-1916. Contains commentaries with historians including Andrey Serkov, Boris Mironov, Lars Westerlud, Lidiya Spiridonova, Frank Drauschke, Natalya Narochnitskaya, Irina Novikova, Olga Pavlenko, Sergey Dmitriev, Sergey Listikov, Nicolas Tandler, Sviatoslav Tkachenko, Svyatoslav Rybas, Viktor Kozodoy, Jean-Pierre Arrignon, Richard B. Spence, Valentin Katasonov, Valery Shambarov. Parts 1 and 3:...
Topics: video, Revolution A Trap For Russia, Russian Revolution, 1905 Russian Revolution, Maxim Gorky,...
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Aug 30, 2021
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Aug 30, 2021
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Chiharu Inaba; David S. Foglesong; Lars Westerlund; Richard B. Spence; Vladimir Vasilik;
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Part 1: Documentary on Jacob H. Schiff's motives for financing the Japanese during their Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05—the influence of the 1903 Kishinev pogrom which had been initiated by Pavel Krushevan, first publisher and author or co-author of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1903). Includes the Japanese financing of anti-Tsarist revolutionary movements in Russia and Finland to the 1905 Russian Revolution. Parts 2 and 3: http://archive.org/details/revolution-a-trap-for-russia-2-3...
Topics: video, Revolution A Trap For Russia, Russian Revolution, 1905 Russian Revolution, George Kennan,...
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Aug 29, 2021
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Aug 29, 2021
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Richard B. Spence
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Wall Street and the Russian Revolution, 1905-1925 will give readers critical insight into what might be called the “secret history of the 20th century.” The Russian Revolution, like the war in which it was born, represents the real beginning of the modern world. This book will look not just at the sweep of events, but probe the economic, ideological and personal motivations of the key figures involved, revealing heretofore unknown or misunderstood connections. Was Trotsky, for instance, a...
Topics: audio, Richard B. Spence, Russian Revolution, 1917, Wall Street and the Russian Revolution, World...
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Aug 26, 2021
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Aug 26, 2021
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Jonathan Schneer
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Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia: During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane 30-year-old Scot, they conspired to overthrow Lenin's newly established Bolshevik regime, and to install one that would continue the war against Germany on the Eastern Front. Lockhart's confidante and...
Topics: audio, Jonathan Schneer, The Lockhart Plot, 1918, Lenin, Vladimir Lenin, First World War, World War...
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Aug 21, 2021
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Aug 21, 2021
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Andrey Sakharov; Elvira Conceiro; Oleg Budnitsky; Vsevolod Volkov;
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Documentary on Stalin's banishment of Leon Trotsky (November 7, 1879 – August 21, 1940) from the USSR in 1929, his unsuccessful exile in Western Europe to Mexico. Stalin's purge from the Moscow Trials and infamous Great Terror, to the murder of Trotsky's children and his assassination on August 20, 1940. Contains commentaries with historians Andrey Sakharov, Oleg Budnitsky, Nikita Petrov and Elvira Concheiro, also included is Leon Trotsky's grandson, Vsevolod “Seva” Volkov. Related:...
Topics: video, Trotsky, Leon Trotsky, To Kill Trotsky, Stalin, The Assassination of Leon Trotsky,...
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Aug 21, 2021
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Aug 21, 2021
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Bertrand M. Patenaude
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In Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary , Stanford University lecturer Bertrand M. Patenaude tells the dramatic story of Leon Trotsky's final years in exile in Mexico. Shedding new light on Trotsky’s tumultuous friendship with painter Diego Rivera, his affair with Rivera’s wife Frida Kahlo, and his torment as his family and comrades become victims of the Great Terror, Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary brilliantly illuminates the fateful and dramatic life of one of history’s most famous...
Topics: audio, Bertrand Patenaude, Trotsky, Leon Trotsky, Trotsky Downfall of a Revolutionary, Soviet...
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Aug 17, 2021
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Aug 17, 2021
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Kenneth D. Ackerman
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Trotsky in New York, 1917; A Radical on the Eve of Revolution: Lev Davidovich Bronstein—Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as co–leader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the Twentieth Century, a global icon of radical change. Yet just months earlier, this same Lev Trotsky was a nobody, a refugee expelled from Europe, writing obscure pamphlets and speeches, barely noticed outside a small circle of fellow...
Topics: audio, Ken Ackerman, Trotsky In New York 1917, USSR, Leon Trotsky, Trotsky, Lev Bronstein, Russian...
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Aug 16, 2021
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Aug 16, 2021
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Jonathan Martin
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Documentary on the assassination of Leon Trotsky (November 7, 1879 – August 21, 1940). Related: http://archive.org/details/to-kill-trotsky http://archive.org/details/bertrand-patenaude-trotsky-downfall-audio
Topics: video, Leon Trotsky, The Assassination of Leon Trotsky, Trotsky, Natalia Sedova, Lev Bronstein,...
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Aug 15, 2021
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Aug 15, 2021
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Jonathan Martin
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Documentary on the history of Russian intelligence in the early 20th century.
Topics: video, Early Russian Intelligence, Ivan The Terrible, Secret Police, Espionage, Oprichnina,...
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Aug 14, 2021
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Aug 14, 2021
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Ronald G. Suny, Valerie A. Kivelson
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Russia's Empires explores the long history of Russia, the Soviet Union, and the present Russian Federation through the lens of empire, analyzing how and why Russia expanded to become the largest country on the globe and how it repeatedly fell under the sway of strong, authoritarian leaders. Authors Valerie A. Kivelson and Ronald Grigor Suny examine how imperial practices shaped choices and limited alternatives. Using the concept of empire, they look at the ways in which ordinary people imagined...
Topics: audio, Ronald G. Suny, Valerie A. Kivelson, Russia, Russia's Empires, Imperial Russia, Russian...
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Aug 4, 2021
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Aug 4, 2021
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Stephen F. Williams
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How One Liberal Fought to Preempt the Russian Revolution: Besides absolutists of the right (the tsar and his adherents) and left (Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks), the Russian political landscape in 1917 featured moderates seeking liberal reform and a rapid evolution towards a constitutional monarchy. Vasily Maklakov, a lawyer, legislator and public intellectual, was among the most prominent of these, and the most articulate and sophisticated advocate of the rule of law, the linchpin of...
Topics: audio, Stephen F. Williams, The Reformer, Duma, 1906, Vasily Maklakov, 1905 Russian Revolution,...
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Apr 4, 2021
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Apr 4, 2021
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Harvard University; Richard Pipes; Adam Ulam; E.H. Carr; George F. Kennan;
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—8 original recordings used for the 1968 transcripts, edited by Richard Pipes. 14 recordings remain unavailable. In April 1967, on the fiftieth anniversary year of the Russian Revolution, a group of scholars assembled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to discuss its events and their significance. In planning the meeting, no effort was made to achieve either comprehensiveness of treatment or a consensus of opinion. The invited participants were left virtually free to choose their subjects and, of...
Topics: audio, Revolutionary Russia, Russian Revolution, 1917, Russian Empire, Russian History, Imperial...
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Mar 30, 2021
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Mar 30, 2021
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Mary Gabriel
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Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution: Drawing upon previously unpublished material, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel tells the story of Karl and Jenny Marx's marriage. Through it, we see Karl as never before: a devoted father and husband, a prankster who loved a party, a dreadful procrastinator, freeloader, and man of wild enthusiasms—one of which would almost destroy his marriage. Through years of desperate struggle, Jenny's love for Karl would be tested again and again as she...
Topics: audio, Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital, Karl Marx, Marx, Jenny Marx, Jenny von Westphalen, Friedrich...
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Mar 29, 2021
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Mar 29, 2021
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Jonathan Sperber
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In this magisterial biography of Karl Marx, "likely to be definitive for many years to come" (John Gray, New York Review of Books ), historian Jonathan Sperber creates a meticulously researched and multilayered portrait of both the man and the revolutionary times in which he lived. Based on unprecedented access to the recently opened archives of Marx's and Engels's complete writings, Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life provides a historical context for the personal story of one of...
Topics: audio, Jonathan Sperber, Karl Marx, A Nineteenth-Century Life, Karl Marx, Marxism, Political...
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Mar 22, 2021
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Mar 22, 2021
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Siryamina Pumpyanskaya; Sergei Drobashenko;
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Documentary on important events in Lenin's life and exploring his policies and socialist ideals which were implemented between 1917 and 1922. Includes footage highlighting the industrialization, electrification and cultural advancement that took place following the revolution. It also features footage of Lenin's speeches and a sound clip of a speech made to the Red Army during the Civil War. Related: http://archive.org/details/lenin-voice-of-the-revolution
Topics: video, Vladimir Lenin, Lenin, Pages from a Great Life, Lenin, Siryamina Pumpyanskaya, Sergei...
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Mar 21, 2021
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Mar 21, 2021
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Adam Ulam; J. Arch Getty; Robert Conquest; Robert V. Daniels; Nina Tumarkin;
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Author, lawyer, Marxist revolutionary, creator of the Soviet Communist Party, and founder of the U.S.S.R., Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks and the Red Army. This biography follows Lenin's revolutionary career. Related: http://archive.org/details/lenin-pages-from-a-great-life
Topics: video, Lenin, Vladimir Lenin, Russian Revolution, 1917, Aleksandr Ulyanov, Narodnaya Volya,...
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Mar 15, 2021
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Mar 15, 2021
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Aleksandr Kosachev; Arkadi Tsineman; Gleb Chumakov; Vitali Geviksman;
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Documentary about the life of Karl Marx which uses archive material to describe his importance in Russian history and politics, and addresses the context in which his most famous works were created. Related: http://archive.org/details/lenin-pages-from-a-great-life
Topics: video, Karl Marx, Portrait of a Great Man, Marxism, Marx, Karl Marx, Communism, Capitalism,...
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Mar 11, 2021
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Mar 11, 2021
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Stuart Hall
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Using rare archival film and more recent news footage, this documentary outlines and examines the history of Marx's ideas, emphasizing their early development in Russia and Eastern Europe. Stuart Hall (1932-2014) was Professor Emeritus at the Open University in Milton Keynes (UK). Before becoming a Professor of Sociology at the Open University in 1979, Hall was the Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University from 1968 to 1979. Related:...
Topics: video, Stuart Hall, Karl Marx and Marxism, Karl Marx, Marx, Marxism, Das Kapital, Capital,...
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Feb 8, 2021
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Feb 8, 2021
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Bertrand M. Patenaude
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Stanford professor Bertrand Patenaude joins Daniel Rey to examine the singular life of Alexander Kerensky, the Russian revolutionary overthrown by the Bolsheviks in 1917. Related: http://archive.org/details/mark-d-steinberg-the-russian-revolution-audio http://archive.org/details/revolutionary-russia-audio
Topics: audio, Bertrand Patenaude, Alexander Kerensky, February Revolution, October Revolution, Soviet,...
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Feb 2, 2021
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Feb 2, 2021
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Thelma Z. Lavine
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1. The Young Hegelian The first of a 4 part discussion centered on the contributions of Karl Marx. In this segment Lavine presents a biographical sketch of Karl Marx, and discusses the young Hegelians and Marx's role in that organization. 2. Alienated Man Lavine discusses Marx's philosophy of man's economic alienation as presented in the Paris Manuscripts of 1844 and The German Ideology . The program concludes with a brief biographical sketch of Friedrich Engels, Marx's collaborator. 3. The...
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Topics: video, Thelma Z. Lavine, T. Z. Lavine, Karl Marx, Marx, Marxism, Communism, Capitalism, Socialism,...
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Jan 30, 2021
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Jan 30, 2021
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Richard D. Wolff
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Audio: http://archive.org/details/richard-d-wolff-understanding-marxism-audio Richard D. Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City.
Topics: video, Richard D. Wolff, Understanding Marxism, Marx, Karl Marx, Marxism, Political Economy,...
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Jan 28, 2021
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Jan 28, 2021
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Richard D. Wolff
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Video: http://archive.org/details/richard-d-wolff-understanding-marxism Understanding Marxism is a small book, written by Richard D. Wolff in collaboration with the staff of Democracy at Work, a 501c(3) non-profit founded by Wolff. There are rising demands for accessible introductions to Marxism and to the social changes it suggests. This essay responds to that interest. It seeks to provide bases for real solutions now that the flaws and failures of contemporary capitalism are exposed again,...
Topics: audio, Richard D. Wolff, Understanding Marxism, Marx, Karl Marx, Marxism, Political Economy,...
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Jan 27, 2021
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Jan 27, 2021
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Francis Wheen
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The first volume of Das Kapital , Karl Marx’s unfinished masterpiece, was published in 1867 to muted praise. Born in a two-room flat in London’s Soho amid political squabbles and personal tragedy, the fruit of Marx’s twenty-year struggle did not at first look like it would have much affect on the world. But after Marx’s death, the book went on to influence thinkers, writers, and revolutionaries, from George Bernard Shaw to V. I. Lenin, changing the direction of twentieth-century...
Topics: audio, Francis Wheen, Marx's Das Kapital, Karl Marx, Marx, Das Kapital, Marxism, Political...
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Jan 26, 2021
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Jan 26, 2021
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Francis Wheen
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Francis Wheen’s Karl Marx: A Life is the first major biography since the end of the Cold War of the father of Communism. While previous biographers have suffered from an inability to view Marx and his work apart from the regimes spawned in his name, Wheen gives us not a mythical socialist ogre but a fascinating, maddening, ultimately humane man. Paradox and passion were the animating spirits of Marx’s life. A Prussian émigré who would become the picture of a middle-class English...
Topics: video, Francis Wheen, Karl Marx, A Life, Karl Marx, Marx, The Communist Manifesto, Communist...
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Aug 29, 2020
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Aug 29, 2020
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Mark D. Steinberg
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The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 is a new history of Russia's revolutionary era as a story of experience-of people making sense of history as it unfolded in their own lives and as they took part in making history themselves. The major events, trends, and explanations, reaching from Bloody Sunday in 1905 to the final shots of the civil war in 1921, are viewed through the doubled perspective of the professional historian looking backward and the contemporary journalist reporting and interpreting...
Topics: audio, Mark D. Steinberg, The Russian Revolution, Russian Empire, Russian Revolution, Tsar Nicholas...
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Aug 28, 2020
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Aug 28, 2020
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Douglas Smith
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Audio: http://archive.org/details/douglas-smith-rasputin-audio A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra’s confidant and the guardian of the sickly heir to the Russian throne. His debauchery and sinister political influence are the stuff of legend, and the downfall of the Romanov dynasty was laid at his feet. But as...
Topics: video, Douglas Smith, Rasputin, Grigori Rasputin, 1916
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Video: http://archive.org/details/douglas-smith-rasputin A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra’s confidant and the guardian of the sickly heir to the Russian throne. His debauchery and sinister political influence are the stuff of legend, and the downfall of the Romanov dynasty was laid at his feet. But as the...
Topics: audio, Douglas Smith, Rasputin, Grigori Rasputin, 1916, Mystic, Mysticism, Imperial Russia, Alexei...
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Aug 14, 2020
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Aug 14, 2020
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Laura Engelstein
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War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914-1921 October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over whether, as historian E. H. Carr put it decades ago, these earth-shaking days were a "landmark in the emancipation of mankind from past oppression" or "a crime and a disaster." Some things...
Topics: audio, Laura Engelstein, Russia in Flames, Russian Revolution, February Revolution, October...
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Aug 9, 2020
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Aug 9, 2020
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An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928: The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian Empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally and also profoundly affected the course of the world history for the rest of the 20th century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian Steve Smith presents a panoramic account of the history of the Russian Empire, from the last years of the 19th century, through the First World War and the revolutions of 1917 and...
Topics: audio, Steve Smith, Russia in Revolution, World War 1, February Revolution, Russian Revolution,...
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Aug 7, 2020
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Sheila Fitzpatrick
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The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture. This fully updated new edition of Sheila Fitzpatrick's classic short history of the revolution takes into account the new archival and other evidence that has come to light since the fall of the USSR, incorporating material that was previous inaccessible not...
Topics: audio, Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution, 1917, February Revolution, Russian Revolution,...
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Aug 7, 2020
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Helen Rappaport
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Petrograd, 1917—A World on the Edge Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin’s Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St Petersburg) was in turmoil. Foreign visitors who filled hotels, bars and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out on their doorsteps. Among them were journalists, diplomats, businessmen, governesses and volunteer nurses. Many kept diaries and wrote letters home: from an English nurse who had already survived the sinking of the...
Topics: audio, Helen Rappaport, Caught in the Revolution, Petrograd Soviet, Petrograd, Russian Revolution,...
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Aug 3, 2020
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Catherine Merridale
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A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin’s fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the world In April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II’s abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution Vladimir Lenin was far away, exiled in Zurich. When the news reached him, Lenin immediately resolved to return to Petrograd and lead the revolt. But to get there, he would...
Topics: audio, Catherine Merridale, Lenin on the Train, Lenin, February Revolution, Russian Revolution,...
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Aug 2, 2020
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Lars T. Lih
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In Lenin , Lars T. Lih presents a striking new interpretation of Lenin’s political beliefs and strategies. Until now, Lenin has been portrayed as a pessimist with a dismissive view of the revolutionary potential of the workers. However, Lih reveals that underneath the sharp polemics, Lenin was actually a romantic enthusiast rather than a sour pragmatist, one who imposed meaning on the whirlwind of events going on around him. This concise and unique biography is based on wide-ranging new...
Topics: audio, Lars Lih, Lenin, Vladimir Lenin, Karl Kautsky
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Aug 2, 2020
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Aug 2, 2020
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Alexander Rabinowitch
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The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd During the months following the collapse of the tsarist regime in war-torn Russia, the Bolshevik Party emerged from obscurity to overthrow the Provisional Government and establish the world’s first communist government. In this absorbing narrative, Alexander Rabinowitch counters the claims by mainstream historians that the revolution was a military coup led by Lenin and a small band of fanatics. He refutes the Soviet myth that the party's triumph in the...
Topics: audio, Alexander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks Come to Power, Russian Revolution, October Revolution,...
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Aug 1, 2020
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Richard Pipes
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The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive Lenin—the man, the revolutionary, and the world leader—has remained an enigma, part myth arising from the tumult of the Russian Revolution and part image carefully controlled for nearly seventy years by the leaders of the Soviet Union and their sympathizers abroad. The Unknown Lenin , containing long concealed documents from the Soviet archives, helps correct the myth and revise the image. Lenin emerges here as a ruthless, manipulative leader who...
Topics: audio, Richard Pipes, The Unknown Lenin, Lenin, 1917, Vladimir Lenin, Russian Revolution, Leninism,...
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Harrison E. Salisbury
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Topics: video, Harrison Salisbury, Portraits of Power, Stalin
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Russia's Revolutions, 1905-1917 The destruction of the Czars, which brought about the reign of revolutions from 1905 to 1917 in Russia, looms as the crucial political event of the twentieth century. In little more than a decade, the Romanov dynasty was toppled, and its time-honoured institutions repudiated. How did it happen? How could Nicholas and Alexandra, the nobility, middle class anarchists—even Lenin himself—not foresee the catastrophic changes that were shaking the empire? Why could...
Topics: audio, Harrison Salisbury, Black Night, White Snow, Narodniks, Narodnaya Volya, Russian Empire,...
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Jul 20, 2020
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Robert Gerwarth
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Audio: http://archive.org/details/robert-gerwarth-the-vanquished-audio Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923 For the Western Allies, November 11, 1918, has always been a solemn date—the end of fighting that had destroyed a generation, but also a vindication of a terrible sacrifice with the total collapse of the principal enemies: the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. But for much of the rest of Europe this was a day with no meaning, as a continuing,...
Topics: video, Robert Gerwarth, The Vanquished, World War 1, First World War, The Great War, 1914-1918,...
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Robert Gerwarth
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Video: http://archive.org/details/robert-gerwarth-the-vanquished Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923 For the Western Allies, November 11, 1918, has always been a solemn date—the end of fighting that had destroyed a generation, but also a vindication of a terrible sacrifice with the total collapse of the principal enemies: the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. But for much of the rest of Europe this was a day with no meaning, as a continuing, nightmarish...
Topics: audio, Robert Gerwarth, The Vanquished, World War 1, First World War, The Great War, 1914-1918,...
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Jul 13, 2020
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Jul 13, 2020
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David King
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The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany On the evening of November 8, 1923, the 34-year-old Adolf Hitler stormed into a beer hall in Munich, fired his pistol in the air, and proclaimed a revolution. Seventeen hours later, all that remained of his bold move was a trail of destruction. Hitler was on the run from the police. His career seemed to be over. The Trial of Adolf Hitler tells the true story of the monumental criminal proceeding that followed when Hitler and nine other suspects...
Topics: audio, David King, The Trial of Adolf Hitler, Adolf Hitler, Beer Hall Putsch, Erich Ludendorff,...
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Jul 13, 2020
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Thomas Weber
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Audio: http://archive.org/details/thomas-weber-becoming-hitler-audio The story of the making of Adolf Hitler that we are all familiar with is the one Hitler himself wove in his 1924 trial, and then expanded upon in Mein Kampf . It tells of his rapid emergence as National Socialist leader in 1919, and of how he successfully rallied most of Munich and the majority of Bavaria's establishment to support the famous beer-hall putsch of 1923. It is an account which has largely been taken at face value...
Topics: video, Thomas Weber, Becoming Hitler, Adolf Hitler, Hitler, First World War, World War One, WW1,...
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Thomas Weber
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Video: http://archive.org/details/thomas-weber-becoming-hitler The story of the making of Adolf Hitler that we are all familiar with is the one Hitler himself wove in his 1924 trial, and then expanded upon in Mein Kampf . It tells of his rapid emergence as National Socialist leader in 1919, and of how he successfully rallied most of Munich and the majority of Bavaria's establishment to support the famous beer-hall putsch of 1923. It is an account which has largely been taken at face value for...
Topics: audio, Thomas Weber, Becoming Hitler, Adolf Hitler, Hitler, First World War, World War One, WW1,...
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Jul 11, 2020
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Video: http://archive.org/details/thomas-weber-hitlers-first-war In Hitler's First War , award-winning author Thomas Weber delivers a master work of history—a major revision of our understanding of Hitler's life. Weber paints a group portrait of the List Regiment, Hitler's unit during World War I, to rewrite the story of his military service. Drawing on deep and imaginative research, Weber refutes the story crafted by Hitler himself, and so challenges the historical argument that the war led...
Topics: audio, Thomas Weber, Hitler's First War, Hitler, WW1, First World War, World War 1, List Regiment,...
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Audio: http://archive.org/details/thomas-weber-hitlers-first-war-audio Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War In Hitler's First War , award-winning author Thomas Weber delivers a master work of history—a major revision of our understanding of Hitler's life. Weber paints a group portrait of the List Regiment, Hitler's unit during World War I, to rewrite the story of his military service. Drawing on deep and imaginative research, Weber refutes the story crafted by...
Topics: video, Thomas Weber, Hitler's First War, Hitler, WW1, First World War, World War 1, List Regiment,...
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Jul 8, 2020
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Jul 8, 2020
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William Schoenl
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Jung's Evolving Views of Nazi Germany describes for the first time Jung’s views of Nazi Germany during the whole period from the Nazi takeover in 1933 to the end of World War II. It brings together the authors’ research in archives and primary sources during the past 10 years. William Schoenl is Professor Emeritus of Modern European history at Michigan State University, where he taught for 45 years. His recent publications include Jung's Evolving Views of Nazi Germany: From 1936 to the End...
Topics: audio, William Schoenl, Jung's Evolving Views of Nazi Germany, Jung, Carl Jung, Nazi Germany, Third...
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Jul 7, 2020
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Richard Noll
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Video: http://archive.org/details/richard-noll-the-aryan-christ The Aryan Christ is the previously untold story of the first sixty years of Jung's life—a story that follows him from his 1875 birth into a family troubled with madness and religious obsessions, through his career as a world-famous psychiatrist and his relationship and break with his mentor Freud, and on to his years as an early supporter of the Third Reich in the 1930s. It contains never-before-published revelations about his...
Topics: audio, Richard Noll, The Aryan Christ, Carl Jung, Psychoanalysis, Freud, Sigmund Freud, Jungian
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Audio: http://archive.org/details/richard-noll-the-aryan-christ-audio The Aryan Christ is the previously untold story of the first sixty years of Jung's life—a story that follows him from his 1875 birth into a family troubled with madness and religious obsessions, through his career as a world-famous psychiatrist and his relationship and break with his mentor Freud, and on to his years as an early supporter of the Third Reich in the 1930s. It contains never-before-published revelations about...
Topics: video, Richard Noll, The Aryan Christ, Carl Jung, Psychoanalysis, Freud, Sigmund Freud, Jungian
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Jul 2, 2020
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Jul 2, 2020
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Carol Tavris
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Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell? Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelling look into how the brain is wired for self-justification. When we make mistakes, we must calm the cognitive dissonance...
Topics: audio, Carol Tavris, Mistakes Were Made, Dissonance, Cognitive Dissonance, Elliot Aronson, Leon...
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Jun 22, 2020
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Jun 22, 2020
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Jeffrey Masson, Peter Gay, Frank Sulloway, Jacob Arlow, Thomas Szasz
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Freud's theories are explained in this analysis of the man and his work. The commentators compare his theories with more recent discoveries and wonder if psychoanalysis is a science in itself. Some excerpts from archival films showing Freud and Vienna in the 1930s illustrate this biography. Related: http://archive.org/details/frederick-crews-the-memory-wars-audio http://archive.org/details/frederick-crews-freud-the-making-of-an-illusion-audio
Topics: video, Freud Under Analysis, Freud, Sigmund Freud, Peter Gay, Francis Crick, Jacob Arlow, Jeffrey...
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Frederick Crews
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Criticism and the Empirical Attitude: UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler welcomes critic and writer Frederick Crews as he describes his battles with conventional interpretations and his passion for the English language.
Topics: video, Frederick Crews, Conversations with History, Harry Kreisler, Empiricism, Rationalism,...
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In 1993 and 1994, The New York Review of Books published two tenaciously argued essays by Frederick Crews attacking Freudian psychoanalysis and its aftermath in the so-called recovered memory movement. The first " The Unknown Freud " reviewed a growing body of evidence indicating that Freud doctored his data and manipulated his colleagues in an effort to consolidate a cult-like following that would neither defy nor upstage him. The second, " The Revenge of the Repressed "...
Topics: audio, Frederick Crews, The Memory Wars, Malcolm Macmillan, Douglas Kirsner, Freud, Sigmund Freud,...
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From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator. Sigmund Freud is one of the most influential figures of western society. His ideas transformed the way that we think about our minds, our selves and even our thoughts. But while he was undeniably a visionary thinker, Freud's legend was also the work of years of careful mythologizing, and a fierce refusal to accept criticism or scrutiny of his often unprincipled methods. In...
Topics: audio, Frederick Crews, Freud, The Making of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis,...
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Best-selling author and Berkeley professor of thirty years Frederick Crews has always considered himself a skeptic. Forty years ago he thought he had found a tradition of thought—Freudian psychoanalytic theory—that had skepticism built into it. He gradually realized, however, that true skepticism is an attitude of continual questioning. The more closely Crews examined the logical structure and institutional history of psychoanalysis, the more clearly he realized that Freud's system of...
Topics: audio, Frederick Crews, Follies of the Wise, Freud, Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic, Sigmund Freud,...
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Jeffrey Schaler
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As it entered the 1960s, American institutional psychiatry was thriving, with a high percentage of medical students choosing the field. But after Thomas S. Szasz published his masterwork in 1961, The Myth of Mental Illness , the psychiatric world was thrown into chaos. Szasz enlightened the world about what he called the “myth of mental illness.” His point was not that no one is mentally ill, or that people labeled as mentally ill do not exist. Instead, he believed that diagnosing people as...
Topics: audio, Jeffrey Schaler, Thomas Szasz, The Man and His Ideas, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Mental...
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May 20, 2020
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May 20, 2020
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Tomi Gomory
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Mad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are based on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American mental health research, including the remaking of coercion into scientific psychiatric treatment, the adoption of an unscientific diagnostic system that controls the distribution of services, and how drug treatments have failed to improve the mental health outcome. When it comes to understanding and treating...
Topics: audio, Tomi Gomory, Mad Science, Thomas Szasz, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Medicine,...
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The most influential critique of psychiatry ever written, Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing unwanted behavior as mental illness, psychiatrists, Szasz argues, absolve individuals of responsibility for their actions and instead blame their alleged illness. He also critiques Freudian psychology as a pseudoscience and warns against the dangerous overreach of psychiatry into...
Topics: audio, Thomas Szasz, The Myth of Mental Illness, Mind, Mental Illness, Mental Health, Mental...
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A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement In this seminal work, Dr. Szasz examines the similarities between the Inquisition and institutional psychiatry. His purpose is to show “that the belief in mental illness and the social actions to which it leads have the same moral implications and political consequences as had the belief in witchcraft and the social actions to which it led.” Thomas Szasz (1920-2012) was Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State...
Topics: audio, Thomas Szasz, The Manufacture of Madness, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Social Control,...
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James Ledbetter
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Worshipped by Tea Party politicians but loathed by sane economists, gold has historically influenced American monetary policy and has exerted an often outsized influence on the national psyche for centuries. Now, acclaimed business writer James Ledbetter explores the tumultuous history and larger-than-life personalities—from George Washington to Richard Nixon—behind America's volatile relationship to this hallowed metal and investigates what this enduring obsession reveals about the...
Topics: audio, James Ledbetter, One Nation Under Gold, Gold Standard, The Great Depression, Economic...
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Audio: http://archive.org/details/mathematically-perfected-economy-audio Mike Montagne is the original 1968 architect of a proof of one and one only mathematically perfected economy™. In part, this ground breaking, ever unrefuted thesis resolves his original mathematic proof that any purported economy based upon the present obfuscation of our currency inevitably manifests, itself, in the present terminal monetary failure a terminal failure coupled to categoric faults, which his proofs...
Topics: audio, Mathematically Perfected Economy, Economics, Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy, Monetization,...
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Daniel Bell
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Published originally in 1973, Daniel Bell's The Coming of Post-Industrial Society was the first book to identify the structural changes in American society leading to the Information Age. The book was widely praised for its major contribution to social theory and translated into French, German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish (and a Russian translation restricted to limited circulation among the ideological elite). Decades later, the term, the idea and the concept of the post-industrial society have...
Topics: video, Daniel Bell, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, Post-Industrial, Information Age,...
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Isaac Asimov
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Video: http://archive.org/details/isaac-asimov Born on January 2, 1920, in Petrovichi, Russia, Isaac Asimov immigrated with his family to the United States and became a biochemistry professor while pursuing writing. An immensely prolific author who penned nearly 500 books, he published influential sci-fi works like I, Robot and the Foundation trilogy , as well as books in a variety of other genres. Asimov died in New York City on April 6, 1992. Asimov was also known for writing books on a wide...
Topics: audio, Isaac Asimov, Futurist, Futurism, Popular Science, Astronomy, Science, Space, Evolution,...
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Prophets of Science Fiction : Looks at the life and work of Isaac Asimov, who wrote of a future where mechanical men can do the work for humans. His ideas inspired General Motors to create Unimate, the first industrial robot, and paved the way for the widespread automation of modern industry. The Naked Sun was a warning bell of sorts, predicting a future in which men would use robots in war. With its advanced robotics and unmanned drones, the modern battlefield looks increasingly like...
Topics: video, Prophets of Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Popular Science,...
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Audio: http://archive.org/details/isaac-asimov-audio The Open Mind : On this program, the guest is science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. Heffner opens the program by confessing that he is not a science fiction reader and then introduces his viewers to Asimov, who discusses the following topics, among others: why he chose science fiction as his vehicle to teach the public about the importance of human rationality; how he views God and mysticism; why the human race needs to concentrate on real...
Topics: video, Isaac Asimov, Rationality, Mysticism, Culture, Utopia, Dystopia, Superstition, Rationalism,...
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Christopher D. Bader
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An antidote to the culture of fear that dominates modern life From moral panics about immigration and gun control to anxiety about terrorism and natural disasters, Americans live in a culture of fear. While fear is typically discussed in emotional or poetic terms—as the opposite of courage, or as an obstacle to be overcome—it nevertheless has very real consequences in everyday life. Persistent fear negatively effects individuals' decision-making abilities and causes anxiety, depression, and...
Topics: audio, Christopher Bader, Fear Itself, Sociology, Fears, Conspiracy Theories, Conspiracies,...
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Unraveling Conspiracy Thinking Pulling the Thread is a digital documentary series and engagement campaign that unravels some of America’s most popular conspiracy theories and reveals the emotional, cognitive and social forces that leads rational people to believe irrational things. While experts across the country scramble to create tools to help us separate truth from fiction, Pulling the Thread attacks fake news at the source by exploring the very roots of human belief and the cognitive...
Topics: video, Pulling The Thread, Conspiracy Theories, Mind, Political Psychology, Political Science,...
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Eric Oliver
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Audio: http://archive.org/details/eric-oliver-enchanted-america-audio Enchanted America : America is in civic chaos, its politics rife with conspiracy theories and false information. Nationalism and authoritarianism are on the rise, while scientists, universities, and news organizations are viewed with increasing mistrust. Its citizens reject scientific evidence on climate change and vaccinations while embracing myths of impending apocalypse. And then there is Donald Trump, a presidential...
Topics: video, Eric Oliver, Enchanted America, Conspiracies, Social Science, Political Science, Conspiracy...
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Eric Oliver
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Video: http://archive.org/details/eric-oliver-enchanted-america Enchanted America : America is in civic chaos, its politics rife with conspiracy theories and false information. Nationalism and authoritarianism are on the rise, while scientists, universities, and news organizations are viewed with increasing mistrust. Its citizens reject scientific evidence on climate change and vaccinations while embracing myths of impending apocalypse. And then there is Donald Trump, a presidential candidate...
Topics: audio, Eric Oliver, Enchanted America, Conspiracies, Social Science, Political Science, Conspiracy...
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Joseph Uscinski
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Audio: http://archive.org/details/joseph-uscinski-american-conspiracy-theories-audio What is it in American culture that makes conspiracy theories proliferate? Who is targeted, and why? Are we in the heyday of the conspiracy theory, or is it in decline? Though there is significant scholarly literature on the topic in psychology, sociology, philosophy, and more, American Conspiracy Theories is the first to use broad, long-term empirical data to analyze this popular American tendency. Joseph E....
Topics: video, Joseph Uscinski, American Conspiracy Theories, Conspiracy Theories, Conspiracies, New World...
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Joseph Uscinski
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Video: http://archive.org/details/joseph-uscinski-american-conspiracy-theories What is it in American culture that makes conspiracy theories proliferate? Who is targeted, and why? Are we in the heyday of the conspiracy theory, or is it in decline? Though there is significant scholarly literature on the topic in psychology, sociology, philosophy, and more, American Conspiracy Theories is the first to use broad, long-term empirical data to analyze this popular American tendency. Joseph E....
Topics: audio, Joseph Uscinski, American Conspiracy Theories, Conspiracy Theories, Conspiracies, New World...
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Tom Nichols
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People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe themselves to be on an equal intellectual footing with doctors and...
Topics: audio, Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise, Experts, Social Science, Confirmation Bias, Knowledge,...
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Richard Weikart
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Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany In this compelling and painstakingly researched work of intellectual history, Richard Weikart explains the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality. He demonstrates that many leading Darwinian biologists and social thinkers in Germany believed that Darwinism overturned traditional Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment ethics, especially those pertaining to the sacredness of human life. Many of these thinkers supported moral...
Topics: audio, Richard Weikart, From Darwin to Hitler, Ethics, Adolf Hitler, Egalitarianism, Charles...
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Feb 29, 2020
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Feb 29, 2020
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Sheldon Solomon
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A transformative, fascinating theory—based on robust and groundbreaking experimental research—reveals how our unconscious fear of death powers almost everything we do, shining a light on the hidden motives that drive human behaviour. More than one hundred years ago, the American philosopher William James dubbed the knowledge that we must die “the worm at the core” of the human condition. In 1974, cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker won the Pulitzer Prize for his book The Denial of...
Topics: audio, Sheldon Solomon, The Worm at the Core, Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death, Terror Management...
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Feb 20, 2020
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Feb 20, 2020
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David Livingstone Smith
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Audio: http://archive.org/details/david-livingstone-smith-less-than-human-audio Winner of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today's headlines. "Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." People often regard members of their own kind as less than human, and use terms like these for those whom they wish to harm, enslave, or exterminate....
Topics: video, David Livingstone Smith, Less Than Human, Dehumanization, Psychological, Ernst Jentsch,...
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Feb 18, 2020
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Feb 18, 2020
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David Livingstone Smith
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Video: http://archive.org/details/david-livingstone-smith-less-than-human Winner of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today's headlines. "Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." People often regard members of their own kind as less than human, and use terms like these for those whom they wish to harm, enslave, or exterminate....
Topics: audio, David Livingstone Smith, Less Than Human, Uncanny Valley, Subhuman, Segregation, Social...
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Jan 29, 2020
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Jan 29, 2020
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The Economic Battle: The story of World War Two is usually told in terms of heroism on the battlefield, but perhaps the most important struggle was the economic battle. Across the world, countries were fighting to feed their populations, maximise production from their factories and fund their armies. To mark the 80th anniversary of the start of World War Two, economist Duncan Weldon examines how the economies of the European powers, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and the Soviet Union, set...
Topics: audio, Duncan Weldon, The Economic Battle, 1939, Adam Tooze, David Edgerton, Mark Harrison, USSR,...
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Jan 22, 2020
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Jan 22, 2020
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Adam Tooze
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The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial new book shatters the still persistent myth that Nazi Germany was an unstoppable juggernaut backed by an efficient, highly industrialized economy. The Wages of Destruction challenges the conventional interpretations of that period to explore how Hitler's surprisingly prescient vision—ultimately hindered by...
Topics: audio, Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction, USSR, Adolf Hitler, Hitler, Nazi Germany, Third Reich,...
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Jan 12, 2020
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Jan 12, 2020
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Gotz Aly, David Cesarani, Brigitte Hamann
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Examining Hitler's rise to power through the generous donations of high-profile industrialist and his exemption from taxes. Hitler presented himself as a man of the people, but amassed a great fortune at the cost of the German people. http://archive.org/details/chronicle-of-the-third-reich
Topics: video, Gotz Aly, David Cesarani, Brigitte Hamann, Hitler, Adolf Hitler, Fritz Thyssen, Siemens,...
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Jan 11, 2020
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Jan 11, 2020
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Gotz Aly, Ian Kershaw, Brigitte Hamann
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The Third Reich lasted for 12 years, 3 months and 9 days. It began with great hopes and unprecedented jubilation and ended after a world war in which 50 million people were killed and Germany was destroyed. To mark the 75th anniversary of the seizure of power by the Nazis, SPIEGEL embarks on a unique journey through the bleakest chapter of German history. Michael Kloft traces the story of the Third Reich, painting a picture of Nazi dictatorship behind the propaganda by utilizing what in some...
Topics: video, Gotz Aly, Ian Kershaw, Brigitte Hamann, 1933, Chronicle of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler,...
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Jan 9, 2020
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Jan 9, 2020
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Benjamin Carter Hett
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Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic A revelatory account of the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler, based on new and award-winning research, and recently discovered archival material. The Death of Democracy explores one of the great questions in all of human history: what caused the fall of one of the most progressive governments in twentieth-century Europe, and the rise of the most terrifying? Drawing on extraordinary individual stories to illustrate...
Topics: audio, Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy, Weimar Republic, Nazism, First World War,...
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Dec 27, 2019
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Dec 27, 2019
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Robert O. Paxton
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Fascism was the major political invention of the twentieth century and the source of much of its pain. How can we try to comprehend its allure and its horror? Is it a philosophy, a movement, an aesthetic experience? What makes states and nations become fascist? Acclaimed historian Robert O. Paxton shows that in order to understand fascism we must look at it in action—at what it did, as much as what it said it was about. He explores its falsehoods and common threads; the social and political...
Topics: audio, Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy Of Fascism, Mussolini, Benito Mussolini, Political Ideology,...
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Nov 28, 2019
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Nov 28, 2019
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Ordinary Fascism is composed primarily of Nazi archival material, and the film archives what few others have: it appears fresh and provokes reflection. Painstaking research was conducted over the course of two years by a thirteen-member team. They examined Russian, Polish and East German photo archives and two million metres of Nazi-era films, including Goebbels's personal archive, which had been brought to Moscow by the Red Army. These efforts yielded a large number of documents that still...
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Topics: video, Ordinary Fascism, Fascism, German Fascism, National Socialism, Nazi Germany, NSDAP,...
